Marketing The best marketing since 1984 Imagine you market one of the world's most iconic companies. The CEO says, "I need you to persuade the world to buy a product they don't want."
Marketing Why stability matters to marketing In this week's episode of the SaaStr podcast, Shan Sinha explains how iterating on their business model placed a huge tax on the organization, especially the growth function.
Principles This guy changed my life and can change yours too I'm always thinking. Shower, driving, working, writing this ... It's not healthy. Here's what I did about it, how it saved my life, and could save yours.
Creativity It's time to redesign the open plan office I work in an open plan office. Not one executive office, just a big space circled by meeting rooms. Here's how Frank Lloyd Wright's work became corrupted.
Technology Blocked by the Great Firewall of China A small claim to fame, the time when I was blocked by the Great Firewall of China. Exactly how controversial were my opinions?
Tunes Giuseppe Ottaviani live performance on A State of Trance Watching Armin van Buuren geek out to this live performance from Giuseppe Ottaviani is pretty cool.
Principles A few things I hold to be true These are the truths I hold to be true. They're personal to me and how I live my life. You should have your own. You will, at least, know where I'm coming from.
Principles Principles by Ray Dalio I'm currently reading Ray Dalio's new book Principles. Rather than write a review—for a book already reviewed numerous times—I'll update this post as I read.
Principles Vex Robotics at Willow Glen Middle School I have seen first hand how local communities impact the lives of students outside the classroom. I'm proud to mentor my local school's robotics team.
Principles How do you know you're right? Ray Dalio updates Principles. He discusses how to test the validity of what we hold to be true.
Tunes Listening to #ASOT831 Great new release this week from Above & Beyond, called My Own Hymn. Another high velocity episode of the greatest trance radio show on the planet.
Creativity Why I migrated from WordPress to Ghost CMS WordPress is an amazing project and I happily blogged with it for a long time. In this post I explain why I switched to Ghost for my personal blog.
Business Listening to Masters of Scale feat. Sheryl Sandberg Great scale leaders know how to pivot. Every day, there are new competitors, new threats, new opportunities. There’s no simple, straightforward set of marching orders.
Business Listening to Masters of Scale feat. Mark Zuckerberg If you’re Steve Jobs, you can wait for your product to be perfect. For everyone else, if you’re not embarrassed by your first product release, you’ve released it too late.
Business Listening to Masters of Scale feat. Brian Chesky If you want your company to truly scale, you first have to do things that don't scale. Hand-craft the core experience. Serve your customers one-by-one. Then figure out how and what to scale.
Haiku Issa: Winter seclusion I enjoy this poem for the lesson it teaches about patience. It is often in these moments, listening "to the rain in the mountain," we learn a great deal about ourself.
Haiku Basho: Summer grass The samurai found an honorable death in battle. In Basho's poem, the futility of our efforts becomes plain. All we have are our actions in any given moment.
Haiku Takahama: The winds that blows The human condition desires control. Control of our circumstances, our environment, yet very little of ourselves. Takahama's haiku challenges us to embrace change.
Creativity Astro Teller on the future of education and moonshots I am certain that the education system of the future does not involve rote learning or standardized testing. Like Astro Teller, I'm concerned about the way our children learn today.
Principles Ray Dalio on forming principles If you're looking for a modern guide to success, I recommend Ray Dalio’s Principles. He suggests you, "think for yourself—to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true and 3) what to do about it."
Principles Management philosophy Sunzi’s Art of War has been a strategic inspiration for Western businesspeople for many years. Yet strategy without knowing how to conduct oneself in "battle" is of no use.
Publishing Writing "the fact that ..." doesn't make a fact Writing "the fact that" doesn’t automagically make anything fact. Does Wall Street really judge founder CEOs differently to non-founder CEOs? I don't know, but I do know short-term results interest the Street and that they don't really care who delivers them.
Tunes Listening to See Me Speak In Color by Rocket Empire I’m building a website for a client today. It’s a chill project. So are these tunes from Rocket Empire. If you subscribe to Spotify, enjoy!
Marketing Don't hide spam in product update emails Don't put spam in product and security update emails unless you like unhappy customers. Here's how AwardWallet gets it wrong.
Tunes Listening to I AM OMNI (produced by Tricky) IAMOMNI's eponymous full-length debut brings back memories of Massive Attack, Portishead and DJ Shadow, but with an LA twist. Enjoy!
